Trying to find a Dallin Oaks quote

[deacon blues]

My memory, which is sometimes reliable tells me that Dallin Oaks once spoke about the Middle Ages as a time when men relied on faith and that since the Renaissance and the Enlightenment society has been going downhill. Does anyone else recall this, and know where it might be found?

[nibbler]

Maybe this:

https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.or ... ses-of-god

The denial of God or the downplaying of His role in human affairs, which began in the Renaissance, has become pervasive today.

[deacon blues]

Thanks so much for showing me this, nibbler. The one I recall was more explicit, but this one shares the same theme.

[Hagoth]

I would like to take this chain of though back even further. There was once a time when people were connected with the earth and the sky as their deities. Then priests came along and started making a living by inventing gods, bossing people around, and tricking them out of their wealth and possessions. It has all been downhill since then.